{"id":471750,"date":"2022-07-08T01:10:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T22:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-facial-expression-recognition-ai-is-a-total-scam\/"},"modified":"2022-07-08T01:10:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T22:10:44","slug":"why-facial-expression-recognition-ai-is-a-total-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-facial-expression-recognition-ai-is-a-total-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why \u2018facial expression recognition\u2019 AI is a total scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a411879e6127\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a411879e6127\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-facial-expression-recognition-ai-is-a-total-scam\/#%E2%80%9CWhy_%E2%80%98facial_expression_recognition_AI_is_a_total_scam%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Why \u2018facial expression recognition\u2019 AI is a total scam&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-facial-expression-recognition-ai-is-a-total-scam\/#Greetings_humanoids\" >Greetings, humanoids<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhy_%E2%80%98facial_expression_recognition_AI_is_a_total_scam%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Why \u2018facial expression recognition\u2019 AI is a total scam&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n                            A team of researchers at Jilin Engineering Normal University in China recently published <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spiedigitallibrary.org\/journals\/journal-of-electronic-imaging\/volume-31\/issue-5\/051416\/Facial-expression-recognition-in-classroom-environment-based-on-improved-Xception\/10.1117\/1.JEI.31.5.051416.short?SSO=1\">a paper<\/a> indicating they\u2019d built an AI model capable of recognizing human facial expressions.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to save you some time here: they most certainly did not. Such a thing isn\u2019t currently possible.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to accurately recognize human emotions is what we here at Neural would refer to as a \u201cdeity-level\u201d feat. The only people who truly know how you\u2019re feeling at any given moment are you and any potential omnipotent beings out there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper neural channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads.tnw\/uploads\/neural-newsletter_header-1.gif\"\/><\/div>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/src=\" https:=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<h2 class=\"channel-cta-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Greetings_humanoids\"><\/span>Greetings, humanoids<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">Subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>letter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But you don\u2019t have to take my word for it. You can arrive at the same conclusion using your own critical thinking abilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up front:<\/strong> The research is fundamentally flawed because it conflates facial expression with human emotion. You can falsify this premise by performing a simple experiment: assess your current emotional state then force yourself to make a facial expression that presents in diametric opposition to it.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re feeling h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y and you\u2019re able to \u201cact\u201d sad, you\u2019ve personally debunked the whole premise of the research. But, just for fun, let\u2019s keep going.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong> Don\u2019t let the hype fool\u00a0you. The researchers don\u2019t train the AI to recognize expressions. They train the AI to beat a benchmark. There\u2019s absolutely no conceptual difference between this system and one that tries to determine if an object is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/not-hotdog\/id1212457521\">a hotdog or not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What this means is the researchers built a machine that tries to <em>guess<\/em> labels. They\u2019re basically showing their AI model 50,000 pictures, one at a time, and forcing it to choose from a set of labels.<\/p>\n<p>The AI might, for example, have six different emotions to choose from \u2014 happy, sad, angry, scared, surprised, etc. \u2014 and no option to say \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why AI devs might run hundreds of thousands or even millions of \u201ctraining iterations\u201d to train their AI. The machines don\u2019t figure things out using logic, they just try every possible combination of labels and adjust to feedback.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit more complex than that, but the big important idea here is that the AI doesn\u2019t care about or understand the data it\u2019s parsing or the labels it\u2019s applying.<\/p>\n<p>You could show it pictures of cats and force it to \u201cpredict\u201d whether each image was \u201cSpiderman in disguise\u201d or \u201cthe color yellow expressed in visual poetry\u201d and it would apply one label or the other to each image.<\/p>\n<p>The AI devs would tweak the parameters and run the models again until it was able to determine which cats were which with enough accuracy to pass a benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>And then you could change the data back to pictures of human faces, keep the stupid \u201cSpiderman\u201d and \u201ccolor yellow\u201d labels, and retrain it to predict which labels fit the faces.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that AI doesn\u2019t understand these concepts. These prediction models are essentially just machines that stand in front of buttons pushing them randomly until someone tells them they got it right.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s special about them is that they can push tens of thousands of buttons in a matter of seconds and they never forget which order they pushed them in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The problem:<\/strong> All of this seems useful because, when it comes to outcomes that don\u2019t affect humans, predictions models are awesome.<\/p>\n<p>When AI models try to predict something objective, such as whether a particular animal is a cat or a dog, they\u2019re aiding human cognition.<\/p>\n<p>You and I don\u2019t have the time to go through every single image on the internet when we\u2019re trying to find pictures of a cat. But Google\u2019s search algorithms do.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why you can search for \u201ccute kitty cats\u201d on Google and get back thousands of relevant pics.<\/p>\n<p>But AI can\u2019t determine whether a label is actually appropriate. If you label a circle with the word \u201csquare,\u201d and train an AI on that label, it\u00a0will just assume anything that looks like a circle is a square. A five-year-old human would tell you that you\u2019ve mislabeled the circle.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Neural take: <\/strong><\/span>This is a total scam. The researchers present their work as useful for \u201cfields like human\u2013computer interactions, safe driving \u2026 and medicine,\u201d but there\u2019s absolutely no evidence to support their assertion.<\/p>\n<p><span>The truth is that \u201ccomputer interactions\u201d have nothing to do with human emotion, safe driving algorithms are more efficacious when they focus on attention instead of emotionality, and there\u2019s no place in medicine for weak, prediction-based assessments concerning individual conditions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The bottom line is simple<\/strong>: You can\u2019t teach an AI to identify human sexuality, politics, religion, emotion, or any other non-intrinsic quality from a picture of their face. 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I\u2019m going to save you some time here: they most certainly did not. 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